strikebreaker's Usage Examples:

A strikebreaker (sometimes derogatorily called a scab, blackleg, or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike.

After a confrontation in which a white union miner was killed, the miners turned on black strikebreakers, believing them.

He debuted as a film actor in the role of a strikebreaker in Det drønner gjennom dalen (A Boom through the Valley) in 1938.

hired armed detectives or security guards to accompany African-American strikebreakers to start production again.

populations, which occasionally were utilized as strikebreakers against collectivizing White miners, especially at Chandler.

picket line protests against the delivery of coal to the factories by strikebreakers.

Some days into the action the miners organised the Clunes Miners' Association and what were to become known as the Clunes riots, successfully resisting the use of Chinese labour from Creswick as strikebreakers.

Angeles Times lamented that she broke this gender barrier while being a strikebreaker.

A shortage of money to sustain the strike and a plentiful supply of strikebreakers eventually defeated the strikers.

may try to inhibit the use of strikebreakers by a variety of methods – establishing picket lines where the strikebreakers enter the workplace; discouraging.

He began as an enforcer and strikebreaker being paid "50 a week; his salary was raised to "75 and then later to.

formed by union leaders to intimidate or assault non-union workers, strikebreakers, or parties who do not cooperate with the directives of union leadership.

Many of the strikebreakers were students at Harvard University.

Synonyms:

blackleg, scab, worker, rat,

Antonyms:

nonworker, employer, fire, layabout, someone,